The Eddie Show 📷🎧❤️Feb 1
brought low by the painful stupidity of a tech support person who wanted to argue with me that it was megawatts and not megabits.
Show threadThe Eddie Show 📷🎧❤️Feb 1

2/2 "My Internet Provider and the Enshittification of Tech Support by AI!"

The tech support person who insisted the word was "megawatts" and not "megabits" and sounded like a bot (no affect in their voice) was the AI-enhanced (in real time) voice of a person in India whose accent was "Americanized" for "ease of understanding to our customers."

I shit you not. Learned this from a Stateside call center supervisor I received a requested callback from.

FML.

@paul

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#AIGarbage

Feb 1 at 5:38amWeb
Show threadPaul Chambers🚧Feb 1

@noondlyt I talk gobbledygook every time I suspect I am talking to AI. Most times, I get passed on to a human. Once, one politely told me off and hung up. At least, I think it was AI.

@TheEddieShow

Show threadThe Eddie Show 📷🎧❤️Feb 1

@paul @noondlyt

Me: "Human being, please...human being, please" until I get a person on the line.

Show threadPaul Chambers🚧Feb 1

@TheEddieShow I knew I had a post about my experience with the Liberty Mutual insurance AI agent.

https://oldfriends.live/@paul/114950889554715183

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Show threadThe Eddie Show 📷🎧❤️Feb 1
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